LAHORE: Journalist Panel and Progressive Panel will contest for managing the affairs of Lahore Press Club in 2014 in elections to be held at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Wednesday (today). Polling will start at 9:00 am and end at 7:00 pm with one hour lunch break for electing President, Vice President, Secretary, Joint Secretary, Treasurer and eight […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has finalised a code of conduct for private TV channels by taking on board all stakeholders, the Standing Committee of National Assembly on Information and Broadcasting was told on Tuesday. At the first meeting of newly formed committee, chaired by MNA Marvi Memon, the officials of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gave […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has rejected government plea seeking suspension of interim injunction of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on restoration of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Chaudhry Rashid Ahmad and directed it to resort to IHC on this count. The SC has ruled in its orders that original case is still pending […]
Karachi: Speakers at a seminar said on Monday the role the media in Pakistan was playing for raising awareness was considered crucial to educating the people about the concept of sustainable transportation. The seminar was organised under the Pakistan Sustainable Transport (Pakstran) Project here. It aimed at effectively engaging the media to report on social […]
APROPOS letters ‘Broadband and PTA’ (Dec 19), the PTCL clarifies that the information given is incorrect. The PTCL, in fact, has made huge investment in infrastructure and technology development across the country to help households to grow and the industry to cut both cost and time of doing business through its broadband services. As for […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday expressed its anger at the federal government’s failure to implement its orders for the reinstatement of Chairman Pemra Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed. Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan expressed his anger at the non-implementation of court orders by the Establishment Division and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting after the court restored […]
Years after worrying reports that Pakistan has become the most dangerous country for journalists, a new eye-opening study published this week reveals that journalism has become the most dangerous profession for Pakistan. “With 24 television news channels airing relentlessly and a large number of daily newspapers, the statistics this year are more alarming than ever,” […]
KARACHI: Embodying different cultures of Pakistan, ‘Colours of Pakistan’ carnival was celebrated at the Defence Authority Public School (O’ & A’ levels) Seaview. At the grand funfair gala, the students represented different cultures with colourful folk dresses. Former secretary information Mehtab Akbar Rashdi was the chief guest of the function. Rashdi said cultural programmes help […]
KARACHI: Members of the Pemra Officers Welfare Association (POWA) accused the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman of fabricating cases against them and threatening them with dire consequences. In a statement issued by POWA’s secretary-general Amjad Ali, he claimed the chief of the media regulatory body, Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed, has been threatening its members […]
It is quite sad that two of the most watched private English news channels were shut down mainly due to lack of advertisement support and dismal economic environment. However, the Urdu and local languages channels are making money because of the flood of advertisements. It is a huge negligence on the part of our government, […]
Music was perhaps the greatest of radio’s attractions. Listeners could get everything they wanted. Classical, popular, or devotional music, all were available. Roshan Ara Begum, Nazakat Ali, Salamat Ali Khan, Amanat Ali, Fateh Ali Khan, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanam, Umrao Zia Begum, instrumentalists Sharif Khan ‘Poonchwaley’, Hyder Buksh, Shaukat Hussain, Sain Marna, Babu Khan, Siraj […]
SIALKOT: Business Plus TV, an electronic media project of Media Times Limited (MTL), is the only TV channel that completely represents the business community and vows to raise its voice to resolve their problems. This was stated by First Capital Group’s Group Director Finance Imran Hafeez, who was speaking on behalf of Media Times Limited […]
KARACHI: Robust dollar value against the rupee remained the major suppressor for the telecom sector’s imports as the import of this sector declined by 32 percent to $514,046 in the first five months (July to November) of current fiscal year 2013-14 (FY14) as compared to $756,457 in the same period of FY13. According to the […]
LAHORE: Faiz Ghar has much to offer to literature and culture buffs from January onwards. The upcoming events include launch of a 14-track CD of leading singers of the country, an audio book on Faiz’s Urdu translation of Allama Iqbal’s Persian poetry, a fundraiser with Ali Zafar, Faiz Mela and a research project on minorities […]
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